Cigar-bunching machine



J. BRISTOL.

(No Model.)

Y .I CIG-AR BUNGHING MACHINE. No. 576,429. i Patented Feb. 2, 1897.

JACOB BRISTOL, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

CIGAR-BUNCHING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,429, dated February 2, v1897.

' Application filed February 25, 1896. Serial No. 580.664:- (ITo model To all whom t may concern:

Be itknown that I, JACOB BRISTOL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Bunching Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, and especially in the means employed for reciprocating the bunching-table, more fully hereinafter described.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section through my cigar-bunching machine. Fig. 2 is a cross-section thereof on line a; a, Fig. l, with the apron'omitted. Fig. 3 isa bottom plan view showing the arrangement of actuating connections for the table. Fig. 4 is a diagram of the bunching-table in the position Where the pocket in the apron is just closing. Fig. 5 is a diagram of a modified form of actuating mechanism.

A is the main table. B are parallel slideways thereon, and C is the hunching-table, slidingly secured on said slideways. The

bunching-table is provided with a pocket opening D, having the overhanging forward end or shoulder a. At the rear end of the table C are the standards E. .F is a roll journaled in these standards, to which the rear end of the apron G is attached, the other end heilig secured to the forward end of the bun ching-table.

II are standards secured to the table A on opposite sides of the bunching-tahle, in which are j ournaled the concave roller I and bunching-roll J.

K are depending brackets or frames secured to the under side of the table A. L is a lever pivotally secured to the lower ends of these frames, having the upwardly-extending segmentarm L' and the foot-piece L2 at itsv lower end.

M is a flexible strap or other connection attached at one end to the segment L and, passing around the drum N, is secured at its opposite end to the forward end of the bunching-table. The drum N is journaled in the frames K and extends through an aperture N in the table A.

'to the rear end of the table C and passing around the drum N in the opposite direction from the strap M and over the drum O is attached at its other end to a weight Q. I prefl erably use two straps P, arranged on opposite sides of the strap M.

In practice the operator, taking his position in front of the table A, places the binder and filling on the apron G in` the pocket-opening D and then by pressing his foot against the foot-piece L2 moves the lever L, rocking the segment-arm L', and drawing back the table on the slideways B. table the bunch is formed and rolled in contact with the roll J, the overhanging shoulder d serving to contract the throat of the pocket in the apron and thereby close it without dan ger of throwing out the contents. The rolled .bunch is nally deposited in the holder R at the forward end of the table. At the same time the straps P have been drawn by the movement of the table raising the weight Q. Upon releasing the pressure of the foot upon the lever L the weight Q will draw back the parts to their original positions.

In Fig. 5 I show a modified form of actuating mechanism, in which flexible straps S are attached to the forward and rear ends of the bunching-table and extending oppositely are attached to the opposite ends of a segmentarm T, pivoted at T and having the gear-seg`- ment T2 on the opposite side of the pivots.

U is the operating foot-lever, pivoted at Ul and having a gear-segment U2, meshing with the segment T2. By moving the lever U the segment will be turned and the table reciprocated, thc return movement being accomplished by a spring or other tension device.

It will be noticed that all the parts of my machine are attached to the table A, which may be secured to an ordinary work-bench or in any suitable place.

lVhat I claim as my invention isl. In a cigar-bunching machine, the combination with a horizontal table A having horizontal guides thereon, of a bunching-table mounted on the guides, a single oscillating device projecting through the table A at a point midway the length of the guides, flexi- In this movement of the ICO ble straps or the like attached to the opposite ends of the bundling-table extending in opposite directions directly to and engaging respectively the opposite sides of the oscillating device, a lever having a segment at its end for moving the oscillating device, and means for restoring the oscillating,` device and table to their normal positions.

2. In a cigar-bnnching machine, the combination with the table A of the horizontal slideways B thereon, the bunching-table C on said slideways, the brackets K depending from the under side of the table A, the rolls or drums Nand O the former projecting above the table A, and lever L j ournaled in the' frame, the segment L on the lever L, the iieXible connections M and ID secured respectively to the forward and rear ends of the table C and passing oppositely around the drum N, the former being` secured to the segment L' and the latter passing' over the roll O, and the Weight Q attached to the connection I).

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JACOB BRISTOL. W'itnesses M. B. ODOGHERTY, O. F. BARTHEL. 

